ALWAYS THE SAME.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 2

ALWAYS THE SAME.

But no, there it is fay by day,, and! ■ week by week— the samo: tra^slucen-t ' green water laving: the foot of 'Vtlie-. rocks; the;: same tumble o£:jshimmkr^ ing foam, the same patSh'df drifting kelp, Tooted to t&e 'heaving. :' sjppt.' Everything inevitably the ' sairie.""Or: £tie lriodefately-'derient water colour depicting a bush-clad "hillside. iThera is a blaze of rata at onei point;: a riot of russets and [bronzes; ( everywhere else; a • protruding tuft' of., cabbage treo here and there, and a brooding - blue haze over all. The >pen^ctjye has been really well contrived,;' and the colouring is natural enough ~;to be believed. Ect with the passage of, time the solitary silences have ceased to charm, and ono has.arriyecL afrthe point ;of captfoushess-T-reaiy ; -..to object that . the kowhai .has desisted from blooming, by the time >\ikd) rata begins to smoulder "• ' and' ptigloir; ready to jquarrel with.the^slwpe'of "■ the shadow cast .by a loftily; -diifang cloud; ready tcrwag-^r 'that' the artist has never seen a cabba'ge-tr'eeSiook-ing over the shoulder of van- I sidnlt rlniu. ..And. JhenVthere : ;are,'Xlthe lesser lights of tho .coliection-r-tha framed Christmas' supplemoiti''.[:.aid the little .odds and ends ono Jias,.'picked\up for "it :: song ; at the '•; picture shops. All .of these close ; their savour and- piquan.ee. in. course pf time."- (Hiey are left hanging, despised, dejected, and if is only, when --in sheer, despera-tion-one institutes "a-* v general • ipost and suspoiids--- .8., vivid • little snippet from the 'Keign of-. -TeKtor in • the -place where "The Village^Wedding" once radiafod.joy and tnanks•giving, or -/drags "The- -Bashful Lover" from his corner to- Mate>way for "A Highlattd Funeral I '.- tha.t. a fleoting glimpse of the pictures', merits is obtained; and even then a day or two- suffices to ; ;thnist .the collection back, among the "household com> mdn-placos once again. : : PICTOEIAL LTBBABIES. Why not .pictorial circulating libraries to^jemedy this state oiinatters? - Ten kindred spirits ..might "pool three-fourths of '■ their pictures, and circulate * themV say," once . [or twice a year: By' this means the I walls of one's home would be continuously attractive. . The scheme "of interior decoration' would be coh- . stantly changing;.one'sa'rtjsti<>- tasia would bo- whetted and refined; one's hprizoh would' be. sensibly broadened and one would' onjoy the companionship of more pictures than. one. .could ever, hope" to purchase 'fflf;ong's self just ■ f ox so "long as the association -yielded its .ardent pleasures.' 'By. the time, the period. of peregrination had expired, fresh- pictures would .have been 'brought- within the circle ■ (a small agreed contribution -would ' 'maintain ; th"e snpply),- and so -the pro*.' "cess, .might; be. continued; indefinitely. As; a? means to .the on'd'of routing the flashily-framed ■-, butcher's almanac from- the parlour .of the working man, and'ra^- tending', to.keep v one in touch the best . that is current in tho ■tLjftikiG world, the system would prove ■t | ? iD !Pf °j?l and' immediately efficacious. I'.-.^bb.." 1 Venetian :damsel, .i always •j!}ijh»g'-:and plesßing, would smile ■ff^^iJs in my home : and then V in .yonrs.'? Her coyness would onfc^clpy, Jor.- she would in verity anjd in truth' Jjeri' J mpvirig picture; she and- her "cnrly gondolier saturating .the neighbourhood with the story:- of thjeir love until in tho fulness of: -time -they returned to you who sent thorn forth, and might then adorn a cosy 'corner, in' 'the spare : room. The 'middling little oil and- fairly decent'-water-colour could stand sentry .'over -the . hall-stand.